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Wauw (like in really wauv and not like in Microsoft ads) when can I get and use one of these in Europe?

The Amazon kindle

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Here is a good example “Alex Miroshnichenko and the Santiago Fires” from the Creative Commomns blog of how content creators can achieve the needed flexibility with respect to licensing the use of their copyright protected work by using the customizable CC licenses

In the words of photographer Alex Miroshnichenko:

I realized, that, like me, these people also were emotionally involved. These images and this story were important to them on a very deep level.

Flickr was the obvious choice to distribute these fire images to family and friends. Little did I know that images of the Southern Calif. wildfires were starting to have a big impact on Flickr. I soon realized how important and compelling this story was to the online community, and around the world.

Still thinking with my heart, I changed the license for all my wildfire photos to Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, rather than a standard ‘all rights reserved’ copyright notice. This authorizes anyone to share these images or create derivative works as long as attribution to me is provided.

Even though I sell news photos to media organizations, this time my intent was to share my experience and feelings; to share what it’s like to have tragedy hit your hometown. Making a profit on these pictures would be cheating my own heart.

Alex Miroshnichenko does not want to give his work away for free. He makes a living by charging people af fee, if they want to use his photos. But in this particular instance he needed a flexible tool to provide for an exception.

(Via Creative Commons.)

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Foto courtesy of Peter Lind Nielsen

First days of November I attended the ITechLaw European Conference in London. The highlight was an excellent presentation by my favorite Indian lawyer Rahul Mattan on nanotech and the law.

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Larry Lessig has been lecturing for the last decade on how law stiffles innovation. But his message is worth hearing again and again. And if you disagree you must admire his eloquence.

From http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187.

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Her en lille valgvideo med min gode veninden Charlotte Fischer optaget for skæg med mit nye Sanyo Xacto i Gjeddegaarden.

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